The Houston Rockets are fighting for their playoff lives and are in tough spot on Monday night. \u00a0It will the their third game in 4 nights and they will be visiting the team with the best record in the league. <\/p>\n
Houston Rockets (28-24) vs Chicago Bulls (42-11) Matchup<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Preview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Houston<\/strong><\/p>\n This Rockets club is far from spectacular and is probably right where most would have placed them before the year started. \u00a0They are in the fight of their lives the rest of the way as things tighten up and they are forced to play without guards Kyle Lowry and Kevin Martin.<\/p>\n Martin and Lowry were their top and third best scorers so they have been forced to look elsewhere for scoring of late. \u00a0Rookie forward Chandler Parsons, who is a nifty point forward kind of a player has come on scoring 12 or more in 5 of his last 6 games including two double-doubles. \u00a0He and power forward Luis Scola are a nice combo but they are a little soft. \u00a0Center Samuel Dalenbert can be a presence in the middle on D but he is not exactly a brute either. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n Chicago<\/strong><\/p>\n It will be interesting to see what kind of game we get from the Bulls on Monday night. \u00a0They had a huge tilt against Oklahoma City yesterday and put up an egg. \u00a0They lost by 14 points but that was only after a furious 4th quarter in which they outscored the Thunder by 15. \u00a0The Bulls were missing ace point guard Derrick Rose for this one but that is something they have unfortunately gotten used. \u00a0They are flying home with their tail between their legs right now.<\/p>\n Against the Thunder only one starter broke double digits in scoring – long range bomber Kyle Korver. \u00a0In fact the leading scorer was tiny point guard John Lucas who has taken Rose\u2019s injury as a chance to show he can be an NBA contributor with some big game in March. \u00a0The loss to OKC was a big blow to the Bulls ego but not much in the standings provided they get back to winning quickly. \u00a0The next 5 games are against teams currently in the playoffs.<\/p>\n Spread Pick: \u00a0Houston +8 NBA Basketball Matchup: Rockets vs Bulls The Houston Rockets are fighting for their playoff lives and are in tough spot on Monday night. \u00a0It will the their third game in 4 nights and they will be visiting the team with the best record in the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":38321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2734,1534,4933,577,578,40387,40388,4040,53627,9274,749,3925,4114,40390],"class_list":["post-50071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-bulls","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-houston","tag-houston-rockets","tag-houston-rockets-vs-chicago-bulls","tag-houston-vs-chicago","tag-nba-basketball-betting","tag-nba-hoops-lines","tag-nba-hoops-picks","tag-nba-odds","tag-nba-predictions","tag-rockets","tag-rockets-vs-bulls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50116,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50071\/revisions\/50116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMonday April 2
\nUnited Center – Chicago, IL
\n8:00PM
\nMoneyline: No money line currently listed.
\nSpread: \u00a0Chicago -8
\nO\/U: \u00a0187<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nO\/U Pick: \u00a0Over
\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Chicago 99 – Houston 92<\/p>\nCLICK HERE FOR THE BEST\u00a0BASKETBALL HANDICAPPING PREDICTIONS ALL SEASON LONG \u2014\u2013><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"